Katy Perry Literally Ripped Herself A New One When She Split Her Pants On ‘American Idol’

When it’s Hollywood Week on American Idol, anything can happen. It’s one of the more exciting episodes each season, but during this season’s Hollywood Week episode, the excitement was caused by judge Katy Perry rather than any of the contestants. During an audience singalong in which Perry and her fellow judges Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie got up and sang her song, “Teenage Dream,” Perry decided to get a little too low, coincidentally just as she sang the line “I’ma get your heart racing in my skin-tight jeans,” and she split the back of her pants wide open.

Rather than seeking out a new pair of pants, once Perry felt the breeze and realized that the seams of her low-rise pink pants failed her she called for some gaffer’s tape and the show’s crew patched up the tear while Lionel Richie hilariously sang his own single, “Stuck on You.”

Perry went on with the show and poked fun of herself for the moment on Twitter, and Bryan jokingly called her out there for the wardrobe malfunction, writing, “@KatyPerry this is supposed to be a family show #AmericanIdol.” Perry replied, “Family, my ass.”

In addition to Perry’s pants-busting performance, the contestants also took to the stage, and last night’s episode saw the elimination of five of them including Sam Finelli, Delaney Renee, Luke Taylor, Thomas Patrick Moran and Zaréh.

American Idol airs on Sundays and Mondays at 8PM ET/PT on ABC.

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